Saturday various and sundry

First up, a must-read from Doctor Zero:

We don’t need more speeches, meetings, and reckless deficit spending. It’s time for Democrats to admit the truth – painful to them, exhilarating and a bit frightening to the rest of us: Government can’t fix this. Only the free citizens of the United States can. It’s time for government to get out of the way, and let us get to work. [. . .]

We are the same people who split the atom, defeated the Axis, rebuilt Europe, planted our flag on the Moon, and threw down the Iron Curtain. We stand on the same land that nourished the dreams of our grandfathers with wheat, corn, oil, and coal. We are the authors of a radiant web of knowledge that encircles the world. We are the greatest enemies that War, Famine, Pestilence, and Death have ever faced.

Step aside, Mr. Obama. We can do this.

Read the rest. I'm thinking that Dr. Z, whoever he is, ought to run for office.

A few excerpts from Charles Krauthammer on last night's FOX News All-Stars:

On creating jobs:

And lastly, and the most important here, is sort of a reprise of 2008 — lift the unbelievably absurd restrictions on drilling for gas and oil, which would create a gold rush of jobs in the country and help us in terms of national security and the economy.

In our dreams.

On invoking executive privilege over Gate-crasher-gate:

What was the state secret here — the nature of the flower arrangements at the head table? You know, it is as if somebody is invoking the Fifth Amendment in a dispute over a parking ticket.

On the threat level to Obama:

But there was one real piece of news in this hearing, and that was that the head of the Secret Service was asked if there has been an increased level of threats against President Obama – [important] because, you know, there was a rumor in the summer that [with Obama, the threats] had increased by a large percent, perhaps doubled or even worse. Mark Sullivan said that the level of threat against President Obama is the same as against Bush and Clinton, which I think is heartening. It refutes a lot of the rumors and the insinuations that we heard this summer when there was a lot of opposition to Obama policies.

Heartening, yes, and an inconvenient truth for race-mongers. Not that it will matter.


Jim Hoft writes that his blog has come under cyber-attack since he posted the appalling story yesterday (in two parts) on Kevin Jennings and his x-rated reading list for kids. The msm will cover this story only when Glenn Beck or someone like him forces them to do so. (I know, there's no one like Glenn Beck.)


The enviro-elites at PopOffsets aren't into kids at all, especially if they come from Africa or some icky non-Western place like that. Brendan O'Neill can barely contain his outrage:

Rushing to the front of the race for the prize of Most Vomit-Inducing Environmental Initiative Ever Devised, the UK’s Optimum Population Trust — which counts such grandees as David Attenborough and Jonathon Porritt among its supporters — has just launched PopOffsets. This quirkily named campaign is actually deeply sinister: It invites well-off Westerners to offset their carbon emissions by paying for poor people in the Third World to stop procreating.

In short, if you feel bad about your CO2-emitting jaunt to Barbados, or the new Ferrari you just splurged on, then simply give some money to a charity which helps to “convince” Third World women not to have children, and — presto! — the carbon saved by having one less black child in the world will put your guilt-ridden mind at rest.

The Optimum Population Trust is a creepy Malthusian outfit made up of Lords, Ladies, and Sirs who all believe that the world’s problems are caused by “too many people.” It recently carried out a cost-benefit analysis of the best way to tackle global warming and “discovered” (I prefer the word “decided”) that every £4 spent on contraception saves one ton of CO2 from being added to the environment, whereas you would need to spend £8 on tree-planting, £15 on wind power, £31 on solar energy, and £56 on hybrid vehicle technology to realize the same carbon savings.

How can a mere £4 on condoms save one ton of carbon? Well, it prevents more people from being born, and in the eyes of the OPT, people are nothing more than carbon emitters and polluters — filthy, destructive, toxic beings. As its new PopOffsets website says, next to a picture of lots and lots of stick men and a counter telling you how many people were born while you were visiting the website (3,153 while I was there), “More people = more emissions. Rapid population growth is a major contributor to global warming.”

Read the rest. Then go ahead and calculate how many furrin babies you'll need to prevent in order to justify your own carbon emissions. (That is, if I didn't break the calculator when I typed a '9' in for my family.) At the end of the process the philanthropists from the Optimum Population Trust will be pleased to accept your credit card payment.


Danish Sex Workers United are crying discrimination in Copenhagen and aren't taking it lying down are, er, "striking back" with free samples:

The city's mayor warned hotels against patronizing Danish prostitutes during the upcoming U.N. summit — but the Copenhagen hookers are reportedly striking back by offering free sex to anyone who ignores the warnings.

Mayor Ritt Bjerregaard sent postcards to 160 Copenhagen hotels, urging guests and delegates to refrain from buying sex, Spiegel Online reported.

The city's prostitutes have retaliated by offering free sex to anyone who brings one of the cards to an assignation.

This may explain why Brazil is sending 700 people to the conference.

Back in NYC, those elaborate Christmas window displays that attract wide-eyed tots lacked a certain something (begins with 's' and ends with 'x'), but thanks to the folks at XOXO that has been rectified. So if you're planning a visit this year you might want to leave the kids at home (unless, like our safe-schools czar, you believe in immersing them in sex early and often). But by all means bring your creepy cousin Ernie. Because nothing says Christmas quite like simulated voyeurism.

As always on Saturday, read Mark Steyn.

A bit:You could watch the great orator’s listless, tentative performance with the sound down and get the basic message: I don’t need this in my life right now. If you read the text, it made even less sense. There’s something for everyone: A surge! . . . and a withdrawal. He’s agreed to surge for a bit, but only in preparation for a de-surge in 18 months’ time. I said on the radio that the speech reminded me of the English nursery rhyme:

The Grand Old Duke of York
He had ten thousand men
He marched them up to the top of the hill
And he marched them down again.

The Grand Young Duke of Hope has 30,000 men. He’ll march them up the Khyber Pass but he’ll march them down again in July 2011. If you’re some village headman who’s been making nice to the Americans, the Taliban have a whole new pitch for you: In a year and a half, the Yanks are going. But we’ll still be here.

RTR.

Bonus: Q: "How was your flight?" A: "Blessedly eventful."

Linked at Michelle Malkin (buzzworthy)

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